Word: stratagem
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...nationwide. Worried defendants have already devised at least two counterploys. They seek to stall the suit, hoping that the class representatives will die, lose interest or move away. Or they meet the representatives' individual claims in the hope that no one else will press the suit. The latter stratagem was recently struck down by the California Supreme Court, which said that the original plaintiffs have a duty to the class to carry on if the judge is satisfied that they will still represent the class adequately...
...this stratagem, admission of Peking would presumably be carried by a simple majority. Then, if the U.S. had its way, expulsion of Taipei would be defined as an important matter requiring a two-thirds vote, which the advocates of Taipei's ouster might fail to muster...
...playing fields of Eton. Napoleon was sure that the French General Staff had failed him. Sergei Bondarchuk has another idea. Though the English and French exchanged considerable fire and shed small oceans of blood, they had very little to do with the outcome. The beau stratagem was performed by old General Blücher and his vindictive Prussians. They and they alone are responsible for the outcome in Waterloo, or, as its subtitle might read, History Revised for Anglophobes...
...object was to get one or more mavericks who would contradict the majority and thereby hang the jury. The stratagem did not work. Last week, after nine months of endless testimony and agonized deliberations, the seven-man, five-woman panel that had convicted Charles Manson, Leslie Van Houten, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel also recommended the death penalty for all four. Then Judge Charles Older did something unusual: he commended the jurors for service "above and beyond the call of duty." If it were within his power, he said, he would award each member a medal of honor. Concluded Older...
...University should not play a leadership role in such cases," Austin continued. He suggested "talking to the management of GM and urging it to change its policies" as one alternative stratagem...